Ask Lyra

Dec 14

CYOA #50

Something finally happens! Sort of!

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Both of your bags are pretty heavy, but Twist likely doesn’t have much experience with rope, while you on the other hand do. Your sister taught you how quite some time ago, and while you’re likely a little rusty you’ll probably get the hang of it quickly. To that end, you take the bag with the Food, Water, and Rope and she takes the bag with your Smithing Tools, Binoculars, and Towel. The one exception being your Multitool. It’s small size makes it easy to store just about anywhere. You place it in the food/water side of your bag.

Twist loads up with the two bags she’s carrying and the four of you head into the armory. Twist stops and asks about a weapon for herself. With only the spear and staff remaining, she chooses the staff. It won’t do as much damage as the spear, but it’ll be lighter to swing, which should help considering she’s weighted down.

As you travel down the tunnel leading to the box-canyon, you ask if Twist has seen the map. She has and agrees with your proposition to head back to the semi-circular building. You get the feeling that she doesn’t really have much of an opinion on the matter one way or the other. Which is understandable considering she has even less knowledge on what’s going on than you do. And you don’t know much.

As you travel, the four of you drape your Blankets over your heads and down the length of your bodies, tied about the neck to hold them steady with some Strong Silk Straps provided by Amy. This should help keep you warm against the cold.

You also reflect again on your choice of weapon. The gauntlet certainly isn’t optimal, the bow and arrow isn’t either. Sure, you can draw it, but with questionable accuracy. But you’ve read horror stories about monsters that can do harm just by coming into contact with the skin. It’s best to keep some kind of barrier between you and whatever it is you’re up against.

You wonder for a moment if maybe there was something at your house you could have brought to defend yourself with instead. Or maybe you could make something with your tools, if you could find a forge of course.

Without bothering to stop, the four of you head out into the still falling snow, but you don’t get far before turning right around and heading back under the awning. There’s some terrifying noise out there. Echoing, rhythmic booms; like the footfalls of a giant.

Anonymous asked: Did you know a recent scientific report reveals that its healthy and good for unicorn mares to stick their horns in holes??

I read a report once that said gelding can remove dead weight.

theblackstrawberry asked: Personally I like your mane and tail the way it is... oh right, anyway. How was your day?

It was alright. Better than the last two days.

I’m absolutely positive I’m going to regret taking this seriously. But…
Define too much.

I’m absolutely positive I’m going to regret taking this seriously. But…

Define too much.

Anonymous asked: Have you ever tried dyeing your mane and tails to see if any other colors work really well for you?

Seems like it’d be more trouble than it’s worth.

I mean, these are my natural hair colors. I just have it highlighted at the edges where it ordinarily blends from one color to the other to give it that sharp contrast.

vintage-bubblegum-grunge asked: As someone who browses tumblr on mobile platforms more than he should, I would like to thank you for turning off the mobile version (which somehow I didn't notice until you paid notice to it). I'm not that fond of the mobile blog view, and my iPod refuses to remember I don't like it. So thanks for defaulting it away.

Yay! Vindication!

ask-fluttershy-canon:

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Ha ha!

Ah ha ha ha!

Ah ha ha ha ha ha~!

Reblogging this!

(via ask-fluttershy-2-deactivated201)

theblackstrawberry asked: not yet... in a few days after research, memorization, initial spell creation, and things like that.

I don’t remember that verse in the song.

Anonymous asked: If you could, would you visit Gensokyo?

That’s that Touhou thing, right?

Maybe if somepony needed help or something. I wouldn’t just go there to visit, though. I think flying is a requirement to really get anywhere.

theblackstrawberry asked: No time for sleep... Experiments to run, and their's research to be done.

On the seaponies who are still alive.

Anonymous asked: Does your page have a moble format?

It used to, but I manually turned that off.

See, when I go to my own page on my manedroid, if the mobile format is turned on I can’t use any of the links in my sidebar.

It takes longer to load this way, but I can access certain pages and such faster.

I could turn the ponies I follow off, and that would speed up the loading process. I’ve thought about doing that before, but I don’t want to upset anypony if they use that a lot.

Plus I still use it a lot myself while navigating around.

theblackstrawberry asked: *hugs* you'll need this for today...

Thanks.

I gotta go now. Have a good day!

dreamofhircine asked: I think that anon might be onto something actually. I've heard her talk around town on a few occasions and it sounded drastically different each time. That's a real talent.

Huh. I’ll let her know.

It’s certainly not her special talent, though.

Anonymous asked: Is Bonbon a voice actor?

Should she be? Do you think she has the range for it?

Anonymous asked: Ever watch Clone High?

Never heard of it.

After looking it up, I remember catching a scene or two.